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The Official Encyclopedia of Scotland Yard: Behind the Scenes at Scotland Yard
 
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The Official Encyclopedia of Scotland Yard: Behind the Scenes at Scotland Yard (Hardcover)

by Martin Fido (Author), Keith Skinner (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 580 pages
  • Publisher: Virgin Books; New edition edition (10 Aug 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0753505150
  • ISBN-13: 978-0753505151
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 676,232 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Grass, nose, old bill, snout - police and criminal slang has sidled its way into the vocabulary as stealthily as a cat burglar, and indeed the appendix of slang is as good a place to start as any in this fat A-Z account of over 500 aspects of Scotland Yard, covering its 170-year history as one of the world's best-known peacekeeping operations. Other appendices provide names and brief details of those who received medals, or died in service, each one an insight in miniature into life in the Yard. The main entries provide entensive coverage of any aspect you care to think of, including key individuals; special divisions, such as the Flying Squad and Special Branch; major incidents, for example the 1910 siege of Sidney Street, and so on. Definitely a reference book rather than a 'read', but one you'll find strangely compelling. (An updated paperback edition of the illustrated book first published in 1999). (Kirkus UK)

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Published with the co-operation of the Metropolitan Police, these entries cover a range of subjects, from the infamous criminals who have featured large in the Yard's history through the strikes, riots, sieges and disasters that have tested the force over the years to the activities, techniques and structures of the modern Scotland Yard.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful miscellany of police related history and facts, 19 Feb 2000
I was involved in checking the entries for this book and know the contents well. I have recently worked through it again and am really taken by the photographs - the almost Victorian like classroom in the Police orphanage, the famous WPC chasing the naked urchins by the Serpentine, the cartoon of "John Bull" kicking the Home Secretary down the steps of the Home Office, and so on. My favourite story is about Irene Savidge, a prostitute, who was caught with a customer Sir Leo Money in Hyde Park. Sir Leo was acquitted and there was an enormous fuss and great attacks on the police because the establishment closed ranks and pilloried the individual officers. BUT several years later Sir Leo was caught attacking a respectable woman on a train, and convicted and fined. Which all goes to show that justice catches up with all of us in the end!
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